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Identification of occupational mortality, risks for Hanford workers (1982)
| Author | Kneale, Stewart, Mancuso |
| Date | August 1982 |
| Classification | 3.01.8.43/04 (UNITED STATES - SITES - HANFORD) |
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Summary Though most of the production work at Hanford is done by manual workers 46% of the most dangerous jobs are performed by persons who have professional or technical qualifications. For these privileged workers occupational mortality risks are positively correlated with radiation doses but for manual workers, who have relatively high death rates, there is an inverse relation with dose. The high ratio of professional to manual workers is clearly the reason for the industry having fewer observed than expected deaths and the inverse relation with dose for less privileged workers is probably a sign that there has been selective recruitment of the most highly paid manual workers (i.e. skilled craftsmen) into the more dangerous occupations. Evidence of this selective recruitment was obtained by equating danger levels with levels of monitoring for internal radiation. Therefore, there should be some control for these levels in any analysis of cancer effects of the measured dose of radiation.
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